600° hot chips

Cable carriers for portal milling machine

This portal milling machine is used to manufacture points forrailway networks. In the case of this process, hot metal chipswith a temperature of more than 600 degrees Celsius are produced. The previously used energy system was usually wornout after nine months; the cables were destroyed by the metalchips, which resulted in production shutdowns. Remedialaction was provided here by the completely sealed igus® energytube system E4 cable carrier, which is made of the high-temperaturematerial igumid HT from which the hot metal chips with a temperatureof up to 850 degrees Celsius simply bounce off the cable carrier withoutleaving a trace.

Vossloh Laeis GmbH & Co. KG, Matthias Krames,
Trier, Germany